Deeply Engaged in Cross-Border Trade in Central Asia, Precision Procurement Empowers Overseas Markets — Our Company Accompanies Uzbek Clients in Completing Hardware Collective Procurement in Guangzhou, Transiting Through Yiwu to Continue Expanding Orders
Recently, Osman Tohtasun, the head of foreign trade at Yiwu Ooou Import and Export Co., Ltd., accompanied long-term partners Baktiyar and Ulugbag from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on a specialized procurement trip for hardware and electrical supplies in Guangzhou. Leveraging the well-established hardware supply chain in the Pearl River Delta, they completed high-standard product selection and procurement. During business breaks, the clients were also given a tour of the urban landscape of the Greater Bay Area. On July 10, the team returned to Yiwu to commence a new round of full-category foreign trade procurement. This cross-border procurement engagement further solidified the company’s deep and stable long-term relationship with merchants along the Central Asia route, continuously opening up trade channels for high-quality Chinese hardware products to reach offline retail stores in Uzbekistan.
On the evening of July 6, 2026, company head Osman Tohtasun flew from Hangzhou to Guangzhou, successfully meeting with Uzbek clients Baktiyar and Ulugbag, who had traveled a long distance. Both clients have been deeply rooted in the local physical retail industry in Samarkand for many years, operating comprehensive hardware wholesale stores. They have long imported essential goods such as safes, standard fasteners, industrial springs, construction nails, and supporting hardware and electrical accessories from China. Relying on a stable supply of goods, they engage in wholesale and retail business targeting local residents, renovation projects, and small processing plants. Based on years of friendly cooperation, this trip was specifically for on-site product selection in China, personally verifying key quality parameters of products, and selecting cost-effective hardware items suitable for the climate and usage scenarios of the Central Asian market.
As the core distribution hub for hardware and electrical supplies in South China, Guangzhou boasts several large professional trading markets, including the Huancuiyuan Hardware Wholesale Market, Dade Road Hardware Specialty Street, and Nantian Commercial City. These markets gather hardware manufacturing sources from across the country, offering a wide variety of categories and specifications, making Guangzhou a key destination for Central Asian clients to procure industrial and civil hardware accessories. For three consecutive days after arriving in Guangzhou, Osman Tohtasun accompanied the two clients as they navigated various major hardware markets, visiting and inspecting goods at each store, ensuring quality control throughout the procurement process, and adhering to the company’s foreign trade service standard of “quality first, precise adaptation to overseas markets.”
During the procurement process, the clients imposed strict requirements on core indicators such as product material, steel plate thickness, metal hardness, anti-rust technology, load-bearing parameters, and specification tolerances. Leveraging years of experience in the hardware foreign trade industry, Osman Tohtasun worked with the clients to inspect samples on-site. For key parameters such as the compressive performance of safe steel plates, the distinction between carbon steel and stainless steel for screws and nuts, the elastic durability of springs, and the thickness of anti-rust coatings on nails, he engaged in in-depth discussions with market vendors regarding production processes and factory inspection standards, comparing samples from multiple factories to select the best options.Given the dry and sandy environment in Samarkand, priority was given to selecting hardware products that are corrosion-resistant, high-strength, and suitable for local home decoration and engineering scenarios. At the same time, the unit price for bulk procurement, the volume for full-container loading, and the cross-border logistics container plan were calculated. The first procurement list was finalized, along with an export logistics plan for full-container shipments directly from domestic warehouses to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, ensuring goods reach the offline stores of overseas merchants directly, shortening transit times and reducing cross-border warehousing costs.
After the successful completion of three days of intensive professional procurement, to give overseas partners a firsthand experience of the modern urban development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, on the evening of July 7, Osman Tokhson accompanied Baktiyar and Ulugbag to the observation deck of the Canton Tower. Under the night sky, the tower shimmered with colorful lights, the high-rise buildings along the Pearl River were illuminated, cruise ships slowly glided across the river, and clouds set off the city’s brilliant nightscape. From over 400 meters high, they could enjoy a 360-degree panoramic view of the entire vibrant city. Standing on the cloud-top observation deck, the two merchants marveled at the speed of China’s urban construction and modern development achievements, stating that this trip to China not only fulfilled their procurement goals but also gave them a direct sense of the comprehensive industrial support and urban strength behind “Made in China,” boosting their confidence in expanding procurement from China in the future. During the leisure and exchange session, the three parties delved into discussions on the consumption trends of the Central Asian hardware market, long-term procurement plans, and new product customization needs, reaching a preliminary agreement to increase procurement volumes for safes and complete fastener sets in the next quarter.
The three-day hardware procurement trip in Guangzhou concluded smoothly, and the team took a flight back to Yiwu on the evening of July 10. As a global hub for small commodity trade, Yiwu boasts a vast wholesale market covering all categories of hardware, electromechanical products, and daily necessities, making it an important procurement base for Central Asian merchants to supplement their supplies in one stop. After arriving in Yiwu, Osman Tokhson continued to accompany the two merchants on a new round of procurement, expanding categories such as small hardware accessories, daily-use electrical goods, and storage-related products. They integrated supply sources from both Guangzhou and Yiwu, planning the entire process of full-container loading, customs declaration, and cross-border transportation in a unified manner.
Yiwu O-O Import and Export Co., Ltd. has long been deeply involved in cross-border trade along the “Belt and Road” Central Asian routes, focusing on the needs of physical merchants in countries such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The company has built a one-stop procurement service system that connects domestic source markets directly to overseas offline stores. Leveraging the dual advantages of the Guangzhou Pearl River Delta hardware manufacturing belt and Yiwu’s global small commodity distribution hub, the company provides professional foreign trade liaison personnel who accompany overseas merchants throughout the entire process of on-site product selection, quality inspection, price negotiation, and cross-border logistics planning. They select suitable products based on the usage environments of different countries and regions, addressing multiple pain points for overseas small and medium-sized wholesalers, such as source selection, quality control, and cross-border freight, saving merchants the cumbersome process of navigating markets and dealing with factories on their own.Osmantokhson, the person in charge, stated that the demand for offline wholesale in the Central Asian market continues to grow steadily, with local merchants placing greater emphasis on product durability, stable supply, and reasonable procurement costs. This procurement trip to Guangzhou precisely matched the essential hardware needs of Samarkhan’s stores, ensuring strict product quality control through on-site inspections and preventing cross-border after-sales quality issues at the source. The business exchange at the Canton Tower further strengthened mutual trust and deepened overseas clients’ recognition of Chinese manufacturing and the Chinese business environment. In the next phase of procurement in Yiwu, the company will fully assist merchants in diversifying their product categories, refining supporting services for export packing, customs declaration, and destination customs clearance, while optimizing the overall cost of full-container exports.
Looking ahead, the company will continue to deepen regular engagement with local wholesalers in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries, regularly organizing overseas merchants for on-site group procurement in the two core commercial cities of Guangzhou and Yiwu. It will continuously improve the supply chain services for hardware, electromechanical products, and daily necessities across all categories. At the same time, it will optimize integrated supporting services for cross-border logistics, documentation processing, and after-sales follow-up, providing professional, meticulous, and full-process accompanied foreign trade services. This will help more high-quality “Made in China” products steadily enter the Central Asian market, further expand the boundaries of cross-border trade cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, and achieve mutual benefits and long-term collaborative development for both Chinese and foreign merchants.